SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

2013 is the year Social Selling became Mission Critical. Social Selling training budgets increased 48% in 2013. Social Selling’s ‘Lead-to-Close’ conversion rate is 5x marketing sourced leads. This post will address what Marketing can do to promote, enable and optimize social selling within the organization.

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Social Selling Top of Funnel Marketing Ideal Customer Profile 321

SBI Growth

AUGUST 10, 2013

I was lucky enough to be introduced to a sales team’s top performer for 2013. Training dollars are being misallocated. Her sales manager knew her potential and sent her to a weeklong sales training. The Need-Payoff that she had been trained on was thrown out the window. A 4 day training at corporate. The Old Model.

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Training Top of Funnel Hiring Hotels 293

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

In B2B marketing, the words one writes can dramatically change one’s results. Sales Training Coaching Tip: To raise the performance BAR begins with one’s beliefs. Adestra analyzed 1.158 billion business to business (B2B) emails sent within the last year. Increase sales. Share on Facebook.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

The annual HubSpot INBOUND conference started as a great get-together for fans of the inbound marketing software platform a few years back and has grown now to being one of the biggest and best marketing conferences out there. The post Seth Godin Speaks and Marketers Listen appeared first on Score More Sales. Close More Deals.

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Marketing Hubspot Conference Lead Rank 195

SBI Growth

JANUARY 22, 2013

Few marketing teams of $100M+ companies are built for modern demand generation. Marketing team structures too often are remnants from the days of print ad dominance. Marketing teams advanced effectively with this approach in the past. In-house marketing technology is a lynch pin of success. Evolving your Marketing Team.

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Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Marketing Customer 322

SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2013

And it is not for 2013. More recently, he pegged the failure rate of marketing automation software at 50%. In 2011, Gerhard Gschwandtner, publisher of Selling Power Magazine, made the last great prediction in B2B sales. One intelligent hour on LinkedIn tells the trained analyst that demand for sales reps outstrips supply 6x.

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B2B Hiring Quota Social Selling 308

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Have B2B sales reps gone the way of CD players, the Rolodex, and analog radio—replaced by technology that gets the job done faster and better? Some take this to mean that our prospects and clients don’t really need us anymore—that the automation of selling has made B2B sales reps irrelevant. needs us more than ever. Moreover, the U.S.

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B2B Hiring Social Media Pharmaceuticals 120

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MARCH 26, 2013

It went on to say that many midsize businesses still rely on traditional, non-integrated customer management, sales tracking or marketing systems. Create a visual representation or flow chart of data from marketing to sales to operations. An Experian study found that 23% of data in a company’s database is incomplete or inaccurate.

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CRM Guidelines Data Compensation 235

Fill the Funnel

DECEMBER 3, 2012

This years Top Sales Books to Read in 2013. They represent the freshest, most innovative thinking on sales currently on the market and take into consideration the changing sales climate and competitive realities every sales rep and sales leader is facing. Top Sales Books to Read in 2013. LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day.

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Face-to-face Top of Funnel Call-back Social Media 132

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AUGUST 19, 2013

If you are one of these companies, and have NOT embraced the idea that people are looking for your services on the web before you even know of them, it is time to learn more about what an Inbound Marketing effort could do along with the great Outbound work you are already doing. [I''ll Look for additional posts in the weeks to come.].

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Inbound Outbound Inside Sales Lead Rank 201

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Recently we trained a team of 50+ sales reps from a B2B enterprise company. Picture this: we opened the presentation with this question: “Are you going to make your 2013 revenue number?” This article will provide you with insights and strategies for still making the number in 2013. 5 Keys to Closing Strong in 2013.

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Pipeline ACT Competition Top of Funnel 306

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 30, 2021

I was working for a global consulting and training firm. If you have a big-deal prospect or client, you’d better jump on a plane, catch a train, or take a road trip as soon as possible. I wrote that in 2013, when virtual sales meetings weren’t the only option. The year was 1996. But not referral sellers.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Gen Ideal Customer Profile 257

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AUGUST 20, 2013

Recently a paper came out called Inside Sales Market Size 2013 – published by the InsideSales.com Research Division with Ben Warner who ran and challenged the data. million inside sales reps in the United States in 2013. We want to know their habits, strengths, and whether the profession is growing. There are 2.3

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Inside Sales Survey Outside Sales Retail 238

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

For purposes of this discussion, sales enablement is developing strategy, creating assets, reporting, training, measurement, analysis, coaching, cross-functional involvement, and on-boarding. It supports the notion that growing revenues in a company is not done just by bringing in sales training and hoping the reps will adapt.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Survey Lead Rank 219

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MARCH 18, 2014

We have always had to communicate with potential buyers, ask for referrals, work trade shows, and advertise / market for new business. It’s funny to hear people debating about how and when social selling will be further adopted. As long as I can remember, selling has ALWAYS been social. The big change now is the tools and technology.

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Trade Show Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 250

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JANUARY 27, 2014

subscribe to Selling Power or Sales & Marketing Management. offer a new service which your market wants. subscribe to Selling Power or Sales & Marketing Management. offer a new service which your market wants. bookmark a sales blog and read regularly. sign up for RSS feeds for sales sites, blogs, or podcasts.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Hiring Ideal Customer Profile 281

Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

Information in today’s digital milieu has always been a double edged sword for sales and marketing. What we often have to deal with is a highly-evolved B2B buyer, someone who’ve searched across several online platforms. B2B Buyer Behavior. The Salesforce’s Pardot survey, 2013 State of Demand Generation Report, claims that 71.7

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Outsourcing Services Buyer B2B Lead Rank 79

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Devon McDonald, Director Sales & Marketing Support, OpenView Venture Partners. Gen Y workers want feedback, and training, and a career path. Natasha Sekkat, Global Director, Inside Sales Centers of Excellence, EMC. Moderator was Trish Bertuzzi of The Bridge Group , and Chapter Co-President. Natasha focused her talk on retention.

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Hiring Sales Talent NetSuite Lead Rank 223

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2017

In 2013, American companies alone spent $164.2 billion on training and development, including external providers, internal expenses and tuition reimbursement, according to The American Society for Training and Development. Clearly, if your team needs sales training, there's a lot of options out there. 5) Brian Tracy.

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Channels Video Training Hiring 111

Sales Training Connection

MAY 13, 2013

Changes driven by the global market and advances in manufacturing technologies make the past a bad predictor of the future. A fundamental one is the idea of Value Migration – that is, what constitutes value tends to shift over time driven by a set of trends that impact that market. Sales Training. Two requirements come to mind.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Also of interest: IBM State of Marketing Study 2013. IBM State of Marketing Study 2012. How is your company working with partners and suppliers? Same as always? What do you see changing for your business in 2014 and beyond? Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline. Close More Deals.

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Study Influencer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 216

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

Sit down with a coffee or tea and gain some insights to help you kick 2013 off as the best sales year ever. Finally, sites we urge you to check out to help 2013 get off to a great start: Top Sales World. There are lots of social media marketing sites – we follow a number of them. Wishing the best in 2013.

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Video Social Media Outbound Hubspot 210

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In fact, according to the CSO Insights 2016 Sales Enablement Optimization Study , the number of businesses with a dedicated enablement function has increased from 19% to 33% since 2013. What this means is that sales, marketing, and service processes need to be based on the needs, wants, and expectations of customers. Two things.

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Sales Enablement Collateral Decision Maker Study 295

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MARCH 13, 2014

Your market niche is different? His company does not offer him much support in marketing or social tools. Put all the pieces together, and you have the whole picture – which means you have new sales opportunities. It always works to add at least one more strategy to any seller’s single strategy routine. I doubt it.

Referrals 238

Referrals Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile 238

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AUGUST 28, 2013

When you look at how selling has changed over the last 5, 6, or 10 years, there is not doubt that technology tools and a scientific approach to selling has become prevalent in the B2B sales world. But are you more productive now? Do you have better data that you actually apply? We’d love to hear your thoughts. Increase Opportunities.

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Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Lead Scoring Outbound 212

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JULY 27, 2013

Trish Bertuzzi – the Bridge Group Inc – B2B inside sales experts. Steve Richard - Co-founder, Vorsight – B2B top of the funnel. Matt Heinz - Founder, Heinz Marketing. Jamie Shanks – Partner, Sales for Life. Barb Giamanco – Social Centered Selling. Jill Konrath – Author, Speaker, Strategist.

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Social Selling Maximizer Resources LinkedIn 189

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

It is particularly rampant after product training or annual sales off-sites. What questions should you answer about your buyer’s industry or market sector? We have our solutions and we think it is obvious that since we are so great, they must need what we offer. Have you ever caught yourself doing that? Close More Deals.

Lead Rank 226

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Outbound 226

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JULY 17, 2013

Video for sales training and coaching is a given. Nothing fully replaces in-person interaction with prospects, clients, or in-house training, yet video can work as a close second in augmenting in-person meetings. Certainly that leaves a LOT of room for improvement in B2B sales teams everywhere. Increase Opportunities.

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Hiring B2B Video Lead Rank 192

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AUGUST 5, 2013

If you are a B2B seller using the phone and email to connect with prospects and only calling on the C-suite, I’d like to ask you to stop calling high for just a moment and consider broadening your reach. They also cobbled together an inbound marketing strategy which already is gaining them visibility on the web. Close More Deals.

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Inside Sales Outbound Inbound Lead Rank 220

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JANUARY 28, 2014

I’m looking forward to seeing how the world’s largest provider of technology services navigates the Watson team toward solving the millions of data puzzles in the business world to support small and mid-market business growth through understanding customer and prospective customer data. How about building an app with help from Watson?

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Data Health Care Retail Lead Rank 208

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JULY 19, 2013

.” In today’s global market place fueled by technology and the human capacity of curiosity, the pen (a.k.a. Sales Training Coaching Tip: Content marketing is aligned to education based marketing and is considered inbound marketing. 91% of B2B marketers use content marketing.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Social Media Inbound 158

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JUNE 8, 2013

Check out Top Sales World’s new list 2013 Top 50 Sales and Marketing Influencers – it is an honor to be in such amazing company as the others on this list. On the Nimble post, a list of Twitter handles are given for women sales and marketing experts, so you can create a list or just add them to your feed.

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Closing Hiring Twitter Lead Rank 177

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

Recently there was a report published on converting B2B sales leads into deals that we blogged about. Some ideas you might want to think about heading into 2013: Do you have an inbound marketing tool or set of tools to help attract buyers? The study was researched by Leads360.

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Leads360 Closing Inbound Outbound 225

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Building a positive brand in the B2B world is the first step toward the idea of a virtual pipeline where content and ideas convert into prospects and ultimately, clients. If you have a B2B sales team of 10 or more reps and want some guidance on this, drop me a note and I’ll e-mail you our basic overview in growing your online presence.

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Ideal Customer Profile How To B2B LinkedIn 245

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Recently I gave a talk at Hubspot’s INBOUND 2013 marketing conference on Blocking and Tackling – Turning Leads into Sales in Five Simple Steps. It was fun but I found it took away some of my enjoyment of watching football stress-free (yes, I am competitive) so I am not playing again this year. Increase Opportunities. Close More Deals.

Sports 221

Sports Lead Rank Lead Scoring Outbound 221

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

At the end of January, B2B Sales and Marketing Influencer Craig Rosenberg posted a first ever, annual ranking of Inside Sales Influencers for 2013 on the Radius Intelligence blog. Craig based the list on Kred scores – something I was not even familiar with until I saw this list – drawn from Twitter engagement.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Inside Sales Influencer 224

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dreamforce is a most awesome event for anyone in B2B sales. It’s been an annual event for ten years and now it takes over part of San Francisco – sprawling throughout the South of Market district. I have attended six times – this year will be my seventh. Expand Your Pipeline. Close More Deals.

SalesForce 194

SalesForce Lead Rank Lead Scoring Twitter 194